NMR Tech Talk: December 2014

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Law enforcement agents are seeing a dizzying array of structurally similar drugs that challenge existing rapid screening and presumptive testing methodologies. Current methods can lack specificity for preliminary identification of illicit drugs, demonstrating the need for time-sensitive, rapid screening methods with increased structure selectivity and high discriminating power to help identify the assortment of designer drugs. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy offers a solution to this challenge by providing structure sensitivity and high discriminating power.

The compound 2H,3H-decafluoropentane, C5H2F10, is a highly fluorinated hydrocarbon representative of a class of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) specialty fluids. It is sold under the trade name DuPont™ Vertrel™ XF and is a primary component of the Vertrel™ family of specialty fluids sold by DuPont™.

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Featuring the latest news, events, and educational approaches in benchtop NMR, Tech Talk is your forum for bringing this interesting and valuable technique into the classroom or as part of your analytical laboratory. Discover what's new from peers and from our experts at Thermo Fisher Scientific. We welcome your comments and contributions. Email us at info.spectroscopy.us@thermofisher.com